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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
THE ART OF MUSIC: RICHIE HAVENS, PETER MAX & HATCH SHOW PRINT
American Routes delves into the colorful convergence of art and music… from artist-musicians to painterly album covers and audacious poster art. Richie Havens was one such artist turned musician. We’ll learn about his tenure as a Greenwich Village portraitist and his legendary opening act at Woodstock. Then conversation with artist Peter Max, known for his pop-art colors, cosmic subjects and iconic album covers. And a visit to Nashville’s Hatch Show Print, who printed posters for musicians from Bessie Smith to Johnny Cash, for a primer on the art of letterpress.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Mood Indigo Thelonius Monk
Plays Duke Ellington, Riverside - Blue Monday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Blue Monk McCoy Tyner
Nights of Ballads & Blues, Impulse! - Azure Ella Fitzgerald
Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, Verve - Blues on the Ceiling Fred Neil
Bleecker & MacDougal, Elektra - Red House Jimi Hendrix
The Ultimate Experience, MCA - Instrumental: Grunion Run The Hollywood Persuaders
Frank Zappa: Cucamonga, Rhino - SEGMENT: Richie Havens
Listen - Tombstone Blues Richie Havens
I’m Not There Soundtrack, Sony - Honey Now Gillian Welch
Hell Among the Yearlings, Almo - Instrumental: Going Across the Prairie Kirk Brandenberger and Art Rosenbaum
Art of Field Recording Vol. II, Dust to Digital - A Picture from Life's Other Side Woody Guthrie
My Dusty Road, Rounder - Silver and Gold Neil Young
Silver and Gold, Reprise - Yellow Light Eleni Mandell
Afternoon, Zedtone - What Light? Wilco
Sky Blue Sky, Nonesuch - Here Comes the Sun Beatles
Abbey Road, Capitol - Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes Original Recording,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Little Wing Jimi Hendrix
The Ultimate Experience, MCA - SEGMENT: Peter Max
Listen - Blue in Green Miles Davis
Kind of Blue, Columbia - Blue Joni Mitchell
Blue, Reprise - Instrumental: Mood Indigo Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins, Impulse! - When I Paint My Masterpiece Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits – Volume II, Columbia - Mona Lisa Carl Mann
Memphis Rocks: Rockabilly in Memphis 1954-1968, Smithsonian - Crazy Arms Patsy Cline
The Last Sessions, Decca - Little Red Rooster Sam Cooke
Greatest Hits, RCA - Instrumental: The Blob Duke Levine
Beneath the Blue, Loud, Loud Music - The W. S. Wolcott Medicine Show The Band
Across the Great Divide, Capitol - The Great Medical Menagerist Harmonica Frank
Blues Classics: Daisy, Charlie - SEGMENT: Hatch Show Print
Listen - Get Rhythm Johnny Cash
The Man in Black: 1954-1958, Bear Family - The Man in Black Johnny Cash
The Man in Black: 1954-1958, Bear Family - End Bed: Ahmad's Blues Ahmad Jamal
The Legendary Okeh and Epic Recordings, Epic/Legacy
